On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 04:55:51PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote: > This patch series adds support for the Intel QuickData Technology > device, part of the Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (Intel I/OAT). It > is a raw device for allowing hardware DMA i.e. data copies in hardware. > > Performing the copies in hardware can provide performance improvements > for applications where the average copy size is reasonably large, e.g. > 1k packets. For smaller packets, e.g. 64-256 bytes, offloading the copy > may reduce performance due to the overhead of using hardware. >
Apologies, forgot to mention this set has a dependency on: http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=5120 /Bruce